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Hi Jade.

Best case scenario you should if you can update the URL of the links.

Considering that there will be 301 redirects, the loss will not be that much. There's a blog post of Cyrus Shepard talking about the impact of redirects and states that the PR loss is about 15%.

https://moz.com/blog/301-redirection-rules-for-seo

Best luck.

GR

Hi David.

Ahrefs.com offers that service: broken links.

Another way to do that search could be this: Downloading the historic backlinks list and with a mass checker, check where do they point nowdays. I've used GScraper and its option to crawl outbound links.

Best Luck.
GR.

Hi Charlie!

Clearly what you are needing is internationalization and a correct hreflanf setup.
Here a few resources to help you more:
Hreflang generator - Aleyda Solis International SEO - Moz Learning Center The Guide to International Website Expansion: Hreflang, ccTLDs, & More! - Moz Blog The International SEO Checklist - Moz Blog

Hope it helps.
Best luck.
GR

Hi there,

There are some points to mark here:

1- The site was redisigned, as you say there has been restructured the site completely.
2- As some of the URLs seem to be new, still none of them were crawled by roger (moz's bot) and/or they are likely to be considered to no have any leverage. That's some explanation for the PA1.
3- It's known that google takes its time to index the whole site. And also takes its time to inform it in WMT. My advise is to do a search with: 'site;yoursite.com' and check whether there has been an improval in the indexation. Just now im getting 620 results in that search. 
4- Being built in Dupal is no metric to google (at least as fas as my knoledge) in order to harm or benefit you. It's transparent for Google.

Hope I've helped.
GR.

Hello fotios,

Google officially stated that uses hyphens and prioritize them. I'd advise you against making that change. Please don't.

There isn't more to say about it.

Best luck.

GR

Hi Jaward,

Don´t know any case where a tool does't show a meta tag when its present and there are no blocking issues.
As what it regards to thar site: https://nationalcarparts.co.nz/, there is nothing to worry about.

Performing a site: in Google it returs pages with proper title and meta description. Also using Screaming Frog it also found titles and meta tags. Check the attached image.

Hope it helps.
Best luck.
GR

KtyB5su

You're welcome. We are here to help.

I cannot specify an exact amount of time. I've had sites that were fully indexed and informed in WMT in 3 weeks, and other sites that took over 2 months and only got informed roughly 90% of pages.

Sorry, Google is that way. Sometimes gives is a buch of information and sometimes nothing.
Again, i'd trust what you get in the search results, not what appears in WMT.

Yes, do that. All hyphens and 301 from the underscored.

Hi Greg,

At first sight, it seems to be an issue on where you are searching for that international sites. Keep in mind that Google, since over a year ago, takes your IP to localize our search. So, considering you're searching in the US for your UK site, it's possible that you're the issue there.

Also, I'd take a deep dive at:

• That international configuration, it is one of the most complicated settings in SEO,
• In GSC, for the main site (.com) how much traffic is receiving from your other target countries.
• Are properly linked every site with the others?
• Crawling issues? It could probably be an issue that Googlebot isn't able to crawl entirely all sites.

As always, when it comes to international, these resources come handy:
Hreflang generator - Aleyda Solis International SEO - Moz Learning Center The Guide to International Website Expansion: Hreflang, ccTLDs, & More! - Moz Blog The International SEO Checklist - Moz Blog

Best luck.
Hope it helps.
GR

Yeap. Just wait.

I've checked if there was a problem with robots.txt or the meta robots tag, and there isnt any problem with that particularly page.
You can speed up the indexing of some pages with google.com/addurl

Hi there,

Yeap, subdomains are different sites to google from the root domain.

What you are willing to do is to non index the root domain.
Of course one way is to make a 301 redirect, if you still want to preserve the root domain visible I'd do these steps:
1. Set canonical tag in the home to the sudomain
2. Set meta robots tag to noindex in the root domain
3. Update the sitemap, leaving only what you want in the root domain. Update in SC.
4. Create a SC profile for the subdomain, create a sitemap and upload it to SC.
5. Wait

Hope I've helped.
Best luck.
GR.

Hi Hristo,

Have you used Href lang tag? Have you declared the country in Google WebMasters Tool? 
Have you done any linkbuilding? its advisable to get links from the geolocation that you want to rank. i.e. from spanish sites when ranking for google.es

I strongly suggest you to read and learn from these posts:

Location is Everything: Local Rankings in Moz Analytics - Moz Blog
Beginners guide - Chapter 5: Keyword Research - Moz.com
Why We Can't Do Keyword Research Like It's 2010 - Moz Blog
The International SEO Checklist - Moz Blog Hope it helps.
GR.

Dont get spammy and add all your 300 pages. You cant never know when google pisses off. Be discrete and and dont try to rush all the indexed.
(this is just a myth, but lets not try to probe it).

Jeff,

I was only able to find only ONE URL in the sitemap that is blocked by the robots.txt that you've posted in this question.
Check the image attached.
The URL is: https://www.bestpricenutrition.com/catalog/product/view/id/15650.html

What did I do? A manual search of all the disallowed terms in the sitemap.

Also, you might want to take a comprehensive read at this article about robots.txt. It helped me to find that mistake.
The complete guide to Robots.txt - Portent.com

Best Luck.
GR.

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1. Yes. Also, you can set hreflang in the english version, just stating that its the english version.

2. I am not an expert implementating, every time I need to implement, I do a recheck of a few sources. Here some:

The hreflang Tags Generator Tool - Aleyda Solis (Moz's associate)
Use hreflang for language and regional URLs - Search Console Help
Hreflang Attribute - Moz

Hope it helps!
GR.

Hi there,

On one hand, disavowing links doesnt necessarly mean that you've been misbehaving. It is possible that you've been target of black hat SEO or someone that wants to hurt you has created many links.
In my opinion, you must disavow links when spotted and and analized to be potentially harmfull.

On the other hand, I've never heard or read anyone that was penalized for disavowing links. That should be a huge piece of news, that Google penalized you for doing something they want you to do.

Hope i've helped.
GR.

Hello,

As Google perspective, there is no difference.
As linkjuice, it's better to redirect with a 301.

My experience? (and my opinion) it's more secure and the change is done faster in google's index: 301 redirect.

Best luck.
GR.

Hi Toni,

In my websites I've never had any problems to get good rankings, having hosted the site in a completely different country than the targeted country.
Of course, you must take into considerations the response time and how fast/well your pages load in uk with that hosting.
To check that, use GTmetrix.com, it's free and you can set to test it from london, UK.

Best Luck.
GR.

Hello there!

Yes, there will be risk. 
Making that change is technically a redirect from non-www to www domain.
I'd advise you to read this article about new redirection rules and PR loss, it states that usually there is a 15% of PR loss and that theoretically nowadays there will be no loss.

Also, if you decide to do it, remember these 4 things:

1. Add and correctly configure in Search Console the preferred version.
2. If you can, try to change the links already created. Set the new domain as the link.
3. Of course, from that time and on, all the links should have the www.

Hope I've helped.
GR.

The safest and quickest option would be the 301 redirect.

For the cases when that can't be done, there is the canonical option. And of course,  make sure that index.php is out of the sitemap.

Hope it helps.
GR.